Quotes and Proverbs

“You do not have a garden just for yourself, you have it to share.” -Augusta Carter

“Out of gardens grow fleeting flowers but lasting friendships.” – Beverly Rose Hopper

“A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a woman’s contribution to the community.” - Richardson Wright, Truly Rural, 1922

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead

“He who plants a garden plants happiness.” – Chinese proverb

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” - David Viscott

“With fronds like you, who needs anemones.” - Anonymous

“Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.” – Danish proverb

“The best things that can come out of the garden are gifts for other people.” - Jamie Jobb

“Friends are flowers in life’s garden.” - Anonymous

“A garden is a friend you can visit anytime.” – Anonymous

“You’re giving a part of yourself when you grow a plant and give it to someone else.” - Art Scarpa

“Life began in a garden.” - Anonymous

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” - Nelson Henderson

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.” - Thomas Jefferson

“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” – Gertrude Jekyll